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JULIUS HERZOG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,130, dated April 12, 1881.

Application filed January 24, 1881, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUS HERZOG, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Dress- Shirts, of which the following is a specificatlon.

My invention consists in a chest-protecting. shield combined with a dress-shirt, as a permanent portion thereof, and in a manner not to interfere with the work of starching and ironing the shirt-bosom, and also to allow of unequal shrinkage of the material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a rear elevation of shirt having my invention applied, portions of the shirt being removed to show.the shield; and Fig. 2 is a section on line a: :10, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The shirt A represents a dress-shirt of ordinary character, ofwhich B is the bosom.

O is the chest-protecting shield, attached by its upper end to the neck portion of the shirt, so that it hangs loosely at the back of bosom B. The shield C will be of suitable size, made of flannel or of other suitable material, and, as shown, is attached by connecting its two upper corners, a, in the shoulder-seams of the shirt. The shield may, however, be attached across the whole length of its upper end. I do not limit myself in that respect, as it is only necessary to leave the sides and lower end unattached.

The shield attached in this manner is thus made part of the shirt, and is always in place as a protection to the wearer. As a protection in cold weather, it will serve in addition to an undershirt, and there are no buttoned openings to become loose. In summer it serves as a protector to the chest, and as a shield to prevent the shirt-bosom from becoming soiled by perspiration. The shield being loose may shrink without drawing the bosom out ofshape, and in laundering the shirt the shield can be turned back to prevent it from absorbing the starch applied to the bosom.

I am aware that undershirts have been made double-breasted by attaching a re-enforcing piece; but such shirts do not have to be 

